Thanks. I use alt text for most of my photos, just gotta figure how to edit it into this one. That's one for the morning!

I don't know what responsibility I'm dodging. Don't tell me yet. Perhaps first you could get caught up on the other comments, maybe get off these doom windows for a while, check out my other posts. Later, if you're feeling up to it, come back and help. Maybe say hi first. Take care til then. ✌🏻

I'm sorry, do I know you?

I didn't make it, but I'll try to figure out how to do that.

Just for the sake of propriety, I didn't make this. I found it, and don't know where it came from.

That would be great. But I didn't make it, so 🤷🏼

Know your anthromes!
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A small, brown curved fossil tooth with serrations on the inside, and fluting along the side. It sits between the creases of the photographer's palm.

Tooth from a teeny little Dakotaraptor (a little dromaeosaur), probably. From a dig site worked by the Glenrock Paleon and the Morrison Natural History Museum.

A node of black earth is ringed by a slightly larger node of yellow soil. Both are nearly circular, and, together, they have emerged from dried grey mud, which forms their background.

A hole in the ground, which appears to be an ant nest. Around the inside of the hole's rim are light orange soldiers and workers. Within the hole are black, winged drones. The ground around the nest entrance is pebbly.

From Makoshika State Park, Glendive, Montana. Doppelgangers.

A cute, squishy, green caterpillar munching on fennel. The caterpillar has black stripes with orange knobs in the stripes. In this picture, the caterpillar is looking into the camera lens, and their body is out of focus.

A cute, squishy, green caterpillar munching on fennel. The caterpillar has black stripes with orange knobs in the stripes. The camera is looking down on the body of the caterpillar, showing their length (an inch and a half).

Anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) on fennel at the Albany Bulb. Revealed to us by Randonautica.

Do you want to see our public lands sold off?! Call your representatives ASAP!

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📢 Just a couple of days to go until the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network conference on Weds 18th June! ✨

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So excited about this! ✨😁✨

Palpatophora utiliformis. I know this is an extremely common, cosmopolitan species, but you have to start somewhere. #occlupanids #HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social

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Haha, these guys in action!

You're doom-scrolling, and you come across a stupid, fascist comment or post. You feel the need to correct wrongness on the Internet. STOP! Don't argue. Don't elevate the propaganda bots! Don't elevate paid posters! Post or comment this, and then walk away:

I see cultural and affective connections between Trump etc & white men I grew up with, but I don't feel shame. Just sad. New identifications are in order. Deciding to be a "nice" white person: would that mean reforming whiteness into something "nice"? Yikes. We can imagine something else, for sure.

Yeah, I was wondering if it might be a, what do they call them, a veiled oyster. I'll check back on this guy and see what happens.

A smooth yellow globe, only about 2.5 centimeters across, attached to the cornflake-textured bark of a redwood tree.

Young Enteridium slime mold (probably).

Fossils of Cultural Patrimony Repatriating paleontology

Fossil are now being considered cultural patrimony under NAGPRA

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A large carpenter bee. The abdomen and had are covered in black fur. The face between the eyes is yellow. The thorax is yellow and furry. The eyes are bluish grey with multiple black spots. This is a stout bee, but not a round as a bumble bee. He has two short, multi- jointed antenna. The wings are folded and are amber gold. He is looking at the camera.

Xylocopa

The edges of this #Lego brick have abraded into micro and nano plastics 🧱🔬

Over time, even sturdy #plastic breaks down into ever-smaller pieces. 🟦🔷🔹🌀…..

Collecting larger #plasticpollution early helps reduce this process!

#microplastic #cleanup

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

CE5 ET Contact Guided Meditation | Han Meditations

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Have you tried summoning UFOs?

A close-up of a wasp on a lampshade. The wasp is a silhouette on the bright background of the lampshade. It has a long abdomen connected to the thorax by a thin waist. From its thorax, there are six long legs. It has two long antennae, which are swept backwards at the ends.

Ophion

Yeah, I love em when they rot.

Super rotten, so could be lots of stuff, but maybe a Pluteus. Deer will eat them, but they're too bland for humans. I mean, obviously this one is past its expiration date!

Get flagged! Waste their time!